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This Sunday: Spring books preview, Anne Lamott and jazz
Jacket CopyOur books preview for spring includes lots of events, exciting titles.... -
This Sunday: Figment, Charles Dickens, Etgar Keret and more
Jacket CopyFigment awarded innovators prize at LA Times Book Awards. Letters by Charles Dickens and short stories by Etgar Keret this Sunday.... -
Reynolds Price dies at 77; author and longtime Duke professor
In 1984, when he was 51, novelist Reynolds Price learned that a pencil-shaped tumor, about 10 inches long and malignant, had invaded his spine. Several surgeries and dozens of radiation treatments followed, leaving him a paraplegic racked with pain and...Tags: Durham (Durham, North Carolina), Celebrities and Health Issues, Human Interest, Happiness (state of mind), W.H. Auden
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Man Booker International finalists include three Americans
Jacket CopyThe Man Booker International Prize finalists include Marilynne Robinson, Philip Roth and Anne Tyler.... -
John Le Carre stirs controversy trying to withdraw from prize consideration
Jacket CopyJohn Le Carre stirs controversy trying to withdraw from consideration for the Booker Prize International. The judges say he's still on the list.... -
Philip Roth wins Man Booker International Prize, sparks controversy
Jacket CopyA judge withdraws from the Man Booker International Prize jury when the award goes to Philip Roth. "He goes on and on and on about the same subject in almost every single book," she says. "It's as though he's sitting on your face and you can't breathe."..... -
Los Angeles Times bestsellers (hardcover) for Feb. 14, 2010
++++++++++++++++++++ || Fiction || weeks on list || || 1. || The Help by Kathryn Stockett (Putnam: $24.95) The lives of a maid, a cook and a college graduate become intertwined as they change a Mississippi town. || 36 || || 2. || First Rule by Robert...Tags: Robert Mapplethorpe, Sam Shepard, Andrew Young, Crime, Law and Justice, Don DeLillo
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Los Angeles Times bestsellers for Jan. 31, 2010
++++++++++++++++++++ || Fiction || Weeks on list || || 1. || The Help by Kathryn Stockett (Putnam: $24.95) The lives of a maid, a cook and a college graduate become intertwined as they change a Mississippi town. || 34 || || 2. || First Rule by Robert...Tags: Dominick Dunne, Amy Bloom, Crime, Law and Justice, Book, Alice Munro
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'Noah's Compass' by Anne Tyler
"Face it: we forget things every day of our lives. You're missing lots of chunks! But you don't dwell on those, now, do you?"
So says the doctor to Liam Pennywell, the 60-year-old protagonist of Anne Tyler's new novel, "Noah's Compass" -- ostensibly to...Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Book, Pulitzer Prize Awards, Suicide, Health
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In our pages: Anne Tyler's 'Noah's Compass'
Jacket CopyIn Friday's paper, Diana Wagman reviews the new novel by Anne Tyler, "Noah's Compass." "Tyler is not flashy or tricky," she writes. "Her stories are about marriage, divorce, children, unsavory boyfriends, families of all kinds." Her characters eat cereal,... -
Fiction author Hortense Calisher dies at 97
Associated PressHortense Calisher, a prize-winning writer and former president of PEN known for her dense prose in such works of fiction as "False Entry" and "In Greenwich There Are Many Gravelled Walks," has died in New York City. She was 97. Calisher died Tuesday in...Tags: Judaism, Fiction, John Cheever, O. Henry, U.S. Department of State
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Why we read
There's a book I don't remember well, though I can remember precisely where I found it in my elementary school library -- three yards to the right of the door, in the middle of the third shelf from the floor.
I was, and remain, a compulsive reader. Back...Tags: Newspaper and Magazine, Brideshead Revisited (movie, 2008), William F. Buckley, Tom Wolfe, Newspapers
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